Dr. Georges Curtis Benjamin M.D.
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
108 Pembrooke View Ln Gaithersburg MD, 20877About
Georges Benjamin is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Gaithersburg, MD. Benjamin specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Benjamin participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
University of Illinois College of Medicine 1978
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Managing terror. Public health officials learn lessons from bioterrorism attacks.
- Act outlines ways to protect health care workers and the public in an emergency.
- Patient privacy: a policy shift.
- Smallpox vaccine policy: the national debate.
- Prescription drug benefits: the legal battle begins.
- Smallpox vaccination policy: Part II-Preparedness begins.
- Reducing unhealthy behaviors: where do we start?
- Covering the uninsured: the debate returns.
- The battle for a prescription drug benefit.
- SARS: a closer look at this emerging infectious agent.
- Importing drugs: a viable solution?
- Under siege: one state's perspective of the Anthrax events of October/November 2001.
- The solution is injury prevention.
- Prescription drug coverage for seniors: the Medicare plan.
- Tobacco policy: addressing public enemy number one.
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